Notices by Fedilab (tom79@mastodon.social), page 5

Yesterday I published a small fix for freezes and also for the profile bio that was not saved.

https://github.com/stom79/mastalab/releases/tag/1.8.9

As soon as I have a little more time, I planned:
- Follow other instances
- Add lists, tags, remote instances in tabs instead of a menu entry.
- Improve cross-account actions with follows.
- A full black theme.
- Improve error messages.

Do you know that you can mute temporarily an account with the app? It only works with the app, and you don't need to take care about unmuting the account, it will be done automatically.

Thank you to @Steve12L that I only muted temporarily for the example :)

By going on his profile, I removed time muted ;)

#Mastalab #tips

The new release of #Mastalab is available on #fdroid (1.8.7.1)
The detection of utm parameters has been improved. It also fixes the upload issue when editing the profile.

More: https://github.com/stom79/mastalab/releases/tag/1.8.7.1

Weird! When I try to update the profile I no longer get an error (status: 200 + account in response). But nothing is updated...
What is going wrong with my PATCH call? I use the "httpsurlconnection" to build the query. I stopped to send profile & banner pictures through base64 encode, and I use byte array. Did someone already meet this issue?

https://github.com/stom79/mastalab/blob/fix_profile_edition/app/src/main/java/fr/gouv/etalab/mastodon/client/HttpsConnection.java#L631

I will need the help of an admin to catch an error with the app. When uploading a new banner or a profile picture, it sounds that instances return an error 500. It would help me to know what is going wrong with my call to "update_credentials" because I didn't change this piece of code. Thanks for helping.

I published the release 1.8.6. The bug with the orientation of the media is fixed. Thanks to testers :)

Also utm parameters are automatically removed from URLs. It might need some improvements, so don't hesitate to share your feedback.

Other fixes:
- Jpg/png issue.
- URL detection

More: https://github.com/stom79/mastalab/releases/tag/1.8.6

I would like to bring an improvement by removing automatically utm that are in some URLs. I opened an issue for that, if you have some ideas concerning the regex that will be used to cover this issue, don't hesitate to share them. Thanks

https://github.com/stom79/mastalab/issues/407

Do you know that you can use #Tor #onion instances with the app? Just set up the proxy. It is as simple as that. 
#Mastalab #tips

Does someone have knowledge with #GDPR? What changes do I need to apply in the privacy policy even if the instance owns data? What about boosts that can be cached inside the app? Do I have to remove cache for them? I am quite lost. Any advices would be appreciated. Thanks.

Don't forget that you can filter your timelines with a long press on each tab. If you want to filter toots containing some keywords, you only have to use the regular expression and combine these words with a pipe character "|".
Also you can filter your notification timeline.
#Mastalab #tips

Don't lose your time by switching from an account to another one, just to find a toot for a reply, a fav or a boost.
#Mastalab allows you to do it quickly with a long click on the reply/boost/fav buttons. It will work even if the toot is unknown by the other instance #tips

https://github.com/stom79/mastalab/wiki/Cross-account-actions

Do any of you have tested the backup feature in db and filters? I would like to know your feedback to improve it. Thanks.

Do you know someone who could help me draw a banner for the playstore app?

I should publish a new release today or tomorrow, where you can backup your toots in db.
It will be easy to filter them (I added several filters like date range, boost, reply, pinned, media, visibility and keywords can be used). You can suggest some other filters on Github if you want.
Of course, you can look at your toots even if the instance is down, because no Internet connection is needed.

I prefer signing the app myself for the playstore release.

https://play.google.com/about/play-app-signing-terms.html

Last release of #Mastalab works with #Tor #onion instances. More details: https://github.com/stom79/mastalab/releases/tag/1.7.7

I am looking for contributors to improve the Wiki at:

https://github.com/stom79/mastalab/wiki

It needs to be updated (pictures/content) and new elements need to be added. Your contributions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your time and help!
#Mastalab #Wiki #Github

I would like to know your opinion about this issue which concerns the addition of the camera permission:

https://github.com/stom79/mastalab/issues/253

Version 1.7.1 has been released:

Enhancements:
- Timed muting
- Longer CW field
- Smooth scroll in profile pages

Bug Fix:
- Duplicate notifications

More: https://github.com/stom79/mastalab/releases/tag/1.7.1

Thanks to @deutrino for his contribution.

There are new translations in crowdin. Thanks for your help: https://crowdin.com/project/mastalab

I need to find a solution with the online translation. It seems Mastalab will reach the 10M chars/month allowed by the Yandex API. The obfuscation allows to reduce the number of chars sent to the API but it's not enough. Any ideas/solutions would be appreciated.

https://mastodon.social/media/93oFhSbHlzpHNsDX5u8 https://mastodon.social/media/Hs2Qeuc0P0yHD0-TBVs